1864. _Blackwood’s Magazine_, XCV., p. 73. [At dinner] portions of beef were served out to the boys ... the BIBLE-CLERK meanwhile reading a chapter from the Old Testament. _Ibid._, p. 87. An hour ... is expected to be employed in working under the superintendence of the BIBLE-CLERK, as the Præfect in daily “course” is termed, who is responsible for a decent amount of order and silence at these hours. 1878. ADAMS, _Wykehamica_, p. 59. There appears to have been no regular BIBLE-CLERK.... From this it has been inferred that the institution of these offices must have been subsequent, and (some think) long subsequent, to the Founder’s time. *Bibler.* _See_ BIBLING. *Bibling* (or *Bibler*), _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A flogging of six strokes. Hence BIBLING-ROD = the instrument used in BIBLING: it consisted of a handle with four apple twigs in the end twisted together. It was first used by Warden Baker in 1454, and is represented in the _Aut Disce_. BIBLING UNDER NAIL = a BIBLING administered for very heinous offences after an offender had stood under NAIL (_q.v._). 1864. _Blackwood’s Magazine_, XCV., p. 79. Underneath is the place of execution, where delinquents are BIBLED. _Ibid._, p. 72. It need hardly be said that it [the rod] is applied in the ordinary fashion: six cuts forming what is technically called a BIBLING—on which occasions the Bible-Clerk introduces the victim; four being the sum of a less terrible operation called a “scrubbing.” 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 37. Underneath is the place of execution, where delinquents are BIBLED; and near it is a socket for a candle-sconce, known as the “nail,” under which any boy who has been detected in any disgraceful fault—lying, &c.—is placed as in a sort of pillory to await his punishment; a piece of ancient discipline for which happily there is seldom occasion. *Bicker*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—A fray between the boys of the school and the town boys, or KEELIES (_q.v._); generally waged with the aid of stones (_cf._ GEORGE BORROW’S _Lavengro_, ch. vii.; also SCOTT, _Redgauntlet_, ch. i.). In the present Rector’s boyhood these school fights were often waged with “Cowts,” made of a rope twisted firmly into a thick end, with about four feet attached with which to swing it. ... _Cursor Mundi_, MS. Coll. Trin. Cantab., f. 87. And for she loveth me out of BIKER, Of my love she may be siker. 1581. RICHE, _Farewell to Militarie Profession_. My captaine, feelyng suche a BICKERYNG within himself, the like whereof he had never indured upon the sea, was like to bee taken prisoner aboard his owne shippe. 1585. _Nomenclator._ Naturæ et morbi conflictus, Aurel. κρίσις. The conflict or BICKERMENT of nature and sicknesse. 1823. NARES, _Glossary_, s.v. BICKERING and BICKERMENT. Skirmishing.